President Michael Roth announced today that Peter Patton, vice president and secretary of the University and professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, will return to teaching full-time next semester.
Patton has taught at the University since 1976. He joined the administrative staff in 1995, serving on former President Doug Bennet’s senior staff as senior advisor for Information Technology. Since then, Patton has held various administrative positions, including two terms as interim dean of the College and one term as interim vice president for Administration. Last year, he served as staff liaison to the Presidential Search Committee.
Roth made the announcement via an all-campus e-mail.
“I am deeply grateful for the assistance [Patton] is providing me during my first semester as president, and I hope you will join me in congratulating him on the numerous and significant contributions he has made to the University,” Roth wrote in the e-mail.
Included in Patton’s accomplishments as an administrator, Roth listed in the e-mail his participation in drafting the Strategy for Wesleyan and Wesleyan Education for the 21st Century, and the University’s campus master plan.
“I am delighted that this outstanding administrator, teacher, and scholar will once again have the opportunity to devote himself to the academic pursuits that he knows and loves so well,” Roth wrote.
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